A New York City mom who allows her nine-year-old son to ride the subway wrote an article about her mothering ways and became an overnight news story, cast as the “Worst Mom in America.” Many hate e-mails later, the mom wrote a book called “Free Range Kids” and now maintains a blog to argue that […]
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Students protest closed campus proposal
According to an article in the Daily Freeman News, more than 300 students at a high school in Kingston, New York, protested a proposal to forbid juniors and seniors from leaving campus during lunch period. Long a privilege of juniors and seniors, the opportunity to leave campus suddenly represents a grave danger in the minds of local […]
School prom breath tests
Many government high schools are now randomly administering Breathalyzer tests to all students who attend school proms. The Delaware River Valley Regional High School recently adopted this policy for all school dances after more than a dozen students were suspended for arriving drunk at the fall homecoming dance.